inittab is not executing after my Linux box boots up

From: raseelbhagat@gmail.com (Raseel Bhagat)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: inittab is not executing after my Linux box boots up
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:40:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTik-6C08GPqJgJ2YuecjzvokaWNQoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimSE05W3jcPPDvcnG1jFgMFqcAuKg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Prajosh Premdas
<premdas.prajosh@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Dave
>
> I tried booting with the root file system in my flash and uImage i copy
> using TFTP everything is fine.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Prajosh,
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Prajosh Premdas
>> <premdas.prajosh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > I am stuck with a problem. inittab is not executing after my Linux box
>> boots
>> > up.
>> > The problem in detail. I have a linux box, i load the Linux image uImage
>> > using TFTP and my root file system is configured in NFS. After the
>> security
>> > key is generated, my box just waits there infinity. Its not starting a
>> new
>> > terminal.
>> > The new terminal has been specified in the inittab as
>> > ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL
>> > Can anybody help me out with this problem?
>> > Since i am not able to set password i cannot do a secure
>> shell access too.
>>
>> If I had to guess (since you didn't include any boot logs, that's
>> pretty much all I can do), I'd say that your NFS mount of the root
>> file system isn't working.
>>
>> You can always try and see if you can even boot into a shell manually,
>> by adding init=/bin/sh to the kernel command line.
>>
>> Have you tried booting without using NFS, and verifying that you can
>> mount the NFS volume?
>>
>> --
>> Dave Hylands
>> Shuswap, BC, Canada
>> http://www.davehylands.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Prajosh Premdas
>
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Hi Prajosh,

Could you post what exact error are you getting.
I had a very similar problem recently when trying to boot the kernel using
tftp and then mounting the Rootfs over NFS.
The issue I faced was that the Rootfs' /dev directory was not correctly
populated and was missing the /dev/console device.

I was getting an error on the lines of "Unable to start init console" and I
too spent time mucking about in my inittab.

Thanks,
Raseel
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